Like every other game STNE follows specific game rules.
Because we all
would like to have fun in this game, all of these rules must be held! Violations will be dealt with by the management or the administration in form of the STNE court. Punishment include Account Ban, Account Deletion, or other types of punishments. In principle the "you" form is used in the game. Should it bother anyone, so is it advised to not even begin playing this game.
With your login into this game, you accept the following rules and promise to keep them. Any additions or changes to the Rules will not be enforced retroactively. Any new Rules are immediately in effect from the time they are posted in game. As soon as you login to STNE, you recognize amendments and changes to the game rules.

Your name may not exist out of characters/notifications/sentences which are
extreme, forbidden, criminal, unconstitutional, sexual, offensive or suggest different strange contents or context.1
This also counts for the pictures in the descriptions, messages and/or emblems.1
Names must be clearly distinguished from existing ones.

The formatting is to be chosen so that the characters are easy readable, and that there is no violation visible.

You are permitted to use all the means of the action of the game, but the following behavior policy is everyone's obligation to keep!

Bashing means the regularly recurring attack and Stealing from a player and thus removing their freedom of actions. Bashing is strictly forbidden.

Every action must have a beginning and an end. Its not just your fun that's priority!

Insults are prohibited.

You may not impersonate the game management, the administration or the NPC's.

You may not post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, pornographic or publish for reasons other criminal content in this game. This counts for the following, but is not limited to, SCN, SSCN, IRC, TS and ingame chat. RPG stays untouched as it will be dealt with by the SCN-Court.

You are obligated to use the Server Language. Apart from the typical RPG-Langauges. For example: "Klingon," "Romulan," etc. Texts are to be written in the same language of the server.

You may not publish any content of queries, messages, ingame messages, personal messages and other media things without the consent of the original author/composer of the message. RPG content is hereby exempt.
Clauses that contain an automatic approval for publication is prohibited!

The operator of STNE has the right to: follow violations according to the german/english and/or european and international laws
Distancing your behavior from the norms or rules can be punishable by the game management, even if it is not written down. (Just because there isn't a rule for every game action, that doesn't mean you are permitted to do anything that you know is wrong. The game-management has the right to interpret as they see fit!) You can only rely on the game rules that exist in STNE.

You are obligated to report any rule breaking of other players regardless of the nature and extent) to the administration, or in other words the STNE court. Failure to report a violation will lead to punishment.

A program error or software error. It is a expression from the EDV-Area.
A program error happens in computer programs, when a programmer hasn't taken a program logic state into account,
or if the runtime environment malfunctions. Also incompleteness, inaccuracies, omissions, ambiguities, etc. in the specification of the program can lead to bugs, or be interpreted as such.
A Bug is also, when a function of STNE is used in a way that it was not designed for and implemented by the original game developer.
You can announce unknown bugs, or view current ones in the STNE Forum

What is Bug-using?
The use of the program described in § 4.1.1 error exploits.

If a bug has been announced in the STNE forum,
every user has the possibility to state their opinion.(even without a forum account).
Using Ignorance as a justification will not be accepted.

Whoever finds a bug, must announce it in the STNE Forum (Bugusing section).

You may only use the STNE-Script-Engine for automation and queries.
External Bots, Website-Grappe or similar are prohibited.

Dubbing and the usage of STNE-Files in any way or quantity is prohibited. This counts especially for other online games and official galaxy charts and ship lists.

The blocking of pop-ups and filtering of banners is not permitted. The advertising will be deactivated and extra features will be available through the acquiring of the STNE Feature pack.